Sunday, 2 January 2011

Brandon Lee

(February 1, 1965 - March 31, 1993)

To begin, this post will be longer than standard to accommodate some aspects of this case that need exposition. For a sudden death, shrouded in mystery of a high profile individual to occur is unusual. For another death to occur to yet another in ones family, to someone so young, and under equally mysterious circumstances, is frankly improbable. I knew it was when I had first heard the radio blare out that Brandon Lee was dead, then when I examined the means and evidence, I knew that this was no accident.

Brandon Lee was a man trying to negotiate contradictions and questions in finding his own path in this life. His Eurasian ancestry made life challenging for him at times, as he sought to find his identity within two worlds of the East, and the West. Not finding home in either, he amalgamated them instead and forged his own path. This, was also compounded also by unreasonable expectations on him to walk in his fathers shoes and bear his mantle. Brandon however cut his own way, on his own terms, following a destiny that he created from the shadow of his father the great Bruce Lee.

In life Brandon Lee seemed like just another actor striving to become an action hero, using his parents fame as a launching pad, but he was actually much more than that. He was deep, introspective, contemplative and stridently individual. He was his father's son and had in him that same fire, that same unidentifiable quality that made him a burgeoning extra-ordinary individual. It's said that the assumed elite don't terminally neutralise people for who they are, but their power to inspire, influence and lead through their personality. We are all tested everyday in the different levels of our life and this testing gains rewards and punishments. The chap who wants to sincerely change the world doesn't get the CEO's position, or any position to effect that change. There are mechanisms in place, and strategically placed human gatekeepers to ensure that the status quo remains exactly that way. However, every once in a while there are those from amongst the masses who shine and transcend their station. They are exalted into celebrity through their personality, their talents and how they relate to the masses and represent them. Thus they bypass the system when their popularity amongst the masses elevates them to grassroots celebrity. This is why a Bono Vox of U2, the quisling bootblack of the elite could never rise to the level of stature of a John Lennon, though he fancies himself as such. Lennon spent his mature life fighting, financially supporting progressive causes and promoting revolutionary ideals. Bono however sucks off the elite, advances their degenerative policies and acts as a vanguard frontman for their twisted agendas. Lennon was murdered for his beliefs, Bono was promoted and rewarded because of his double-agent acting and crypto fealty.

The media personality that reveals the truth publicly on Israel's war crimes gets immediate ostracisation, ridicule and attack. People join Freemasons, satanic cults and secret societies for the networking opportunities, to get closer to the assumed elite, to get the immunity from prosecution, and other assorted gang perks that come with being a connected predator. The woman who openly pontificates on 9-11 being an inside job at the workplace won't get that promotion, but the man on the radio who does the same and conveniently excises Israel's criminal enterprises is left to prosper unmolested in any way. Brandon, much like Peter Tosh, Bill Hicks, Jacob Miller and others didn't pass the test for one reason or another. They were profiled, vetted, surveilled, tested and assessed for whether they would act as tools for the furtherance of the diabolical agenda or hinderance to it.

Brandon Lee began to rise in popularity due to his down-to-earth persona and martial arts acumen, he had a broad appeal that the masses were able to gravitate to. Just like his father, he portrayed characters who were the common man fighting back against injustice. It was in his last film The Crow where he truly displayed the person he had become. The Crow was not a normal film, it was dark sure but the production values contained serious satanic overtones to those with trained eyes. Originally the Crow was originally a series of American comic-books by James O'Barr, that told a powerful and moving tale of love, resurrection and solemn vengeance. Though dark and realistically brutal, it contained no occult or satanic trappings whatsoever. When Hollywood picked it up as a creative property and produced it, it became a wholly different production, and there was clearly someone with satanised knowledge consulting. Watch the film closely and you'll see what I mean, Druidic rune graffiti adorned the urban set of Detroit which was not at all relevant to the locale. The satanic colours of red and black figure prominently in nightmarish flashback sequences throughout the film. The main villain "Top Dollar" and his witch sister/girlfriend Myca were explicitly satanic in dress and practises. The night The Crow is resurrected is Devil's Night, the night before Halloween. There is much more defining demon-friendly ambiance and accoutrements in the film than I will explore here. Suffice to say, the production setup looked as if it was unusually conducive to a ritualised murder.

On March 31, 1993, during the filming of The Crow on set in Wilmington, North Carolina, Brandon Lee was shot with a live round, .44 calibre bullet from a Magnum disturbingly dubbed "Funboy". It was three takes into the scene where Lee was to walk in on his fiancée being sexually assaulted by street psychopaths. Actor Michael Massee in the role of the chief punk 'Funboy', was to point the weapon in the direction but not directly at Brandon Lee. The magnum was to be aimed at an angle that only appears to be pointed at an intended screen victim. This is standard practise in proper film production, that everyone on the set handling weapons are to explicitly treat blanks as live rounds. Corroborated by Wilmington Police reports, Massee had whirled the Magnum about wildly overhead, then levelling the gun at Brandon and firing. Brandon was hit in his abdomen 3 inches to the lateral right of his navel and went down bleeding profusely from major, irreparable internal damage. He immediately fell into unconsciousness and was dead three minutes afterwards. Despite arriving at the New Hanover Regional Medical Center D.O.A., doctors worked to attempt resuscitation for over 5 hours. An oddity that I find of note, as why work on someone who is literally dead for that amount of time? Unless, perhaps Brandon wasn't actually dead on arrival as reported.

So what we have is a live .44 calibre round placed into a Magnum, that wasn't supposed to be, aimed directly at Lee and fired, killing him. A police investigation throttled from on high of a contaminated crime scene and District Attorney Jerry Spivey labelling the crime near immediately as an accident. There were three separate film takes of the scene where Brandon Lee was murdered, and the 'Funboy' Magnum was fired twice successfully, before the fatal round. The evidential implication is that the gun DID NOT have a dummy bullet accidentally lodged in the chamber as the official story contends. For if it was it would have most assuredly have been flung out while Massee was waving it wildly about, or have been dislodged when fired during the previous two takes. What this clearly does indicate is that a live round was deliberately inserted into the handgun calculatingly and with malice aforethought. Or perhaps a replica of the 'Funboy' Magnum was swapped in and handed to Massey during the third take? That would clearly implicate the gun prop handlers Bruce Merlin, Charlene Hamer or Daniel Kuttner.

A North Carolina Hanover County deputy reported one alarming fact, that was never followed up on. An unidentified Asian-American extra, was on the set and positioned himself with the gun prop team, by expressing his love for guns and obsession with the martial arts film genre. He volunteered to clean the set weapons and expressed that he had travelled from New York City expressly to come down for the filming of "The Crow". The extra was never formerly questioned, nor his true identity discovered as suspiciously the Crowvision Inc. movie company time sheets were found to be conveniently missing. Also, the mysterious Asian-American person of interest left the film set after Lee's shooting and never returned. One piece of evidence that would depict exactly what happened would be the actual film footage of the Lee shooting. Unfortunately that is not possible due to District Attorney Jerry Spivey ordering all evidence sealed, and the judge in Linda Lee Cadwell's (Brandon's mother) subsequent lawsuit ordered all the video footage destroyed.

Below are some additional unsettling occult aspects, and new evidence to consider in this case:

• In the film, Eric Draven and his fiancée Shelly Webster, who play about with occult gothism, are targeted, tortured, and murdered on the night of October 30th, Devils Night. It occurred 3 hours before midnight, on the night before their wedding that was scheduled to occur on October 31, Halloween. I is during the filming of this particular scene that Brandon Lee was shot and killed.

• 11 minutes of the original shooting of The Crow were deleted as prior to it's deletion the film apparently received an X rating by the Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA).

• The main villain Top Dollar and his sister/girlfriend are generational satanists whom employ ritual sacrifice as a means to secure personal power.

A bit of ritual mutilation with an Athame

Victim's eyeball burning in ritual device

Ritually breathing in the smoking remains

• There is a scene in the film following Eric Draven's resurrection as The Crow, where he is climbing up a building and to his right is depicted an all-seeing eye with the words TAMISRA above it in shadows. Tamisra in ancient East Indian texts is one of 28 Hells and defined as: Tamisra Hell. Who goes to this hell? A man who takes way the wealth of others by fraud, or kidnaps the child or wife of another by force, are the ones who go to this particular hell. Why is this particular scene embedded in this film?

The phrase TAMISRA above an All-Seeing Eye

• The band in the movie playing during the henchman Skank's death was called 'My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult' an industrial dance group known for their sleazy satanoid themes.

• The final fight scene is shot in an abandoned church, which in the real world cult cases, are known to be used by satanic cults for their denigrative ritual value.

Find anything of satanic interest in this shot?

• In the final rooftop of the church fight scene, The Crow character receives a Katana blade sword thrust into his back and the blade protrudes exactly where Brandon Lee was shot by a .44 calibre bullet. The autopsy reported that his bullet wound was three inches to the lateral right of his navel, examine the picture and tell me what you see. Since the film was completed after Brandon's murder on the set, I find it more than a bit odd that they arranged this macabre scene by accident. It's more like a twisted 'Revelation of the Method', in-your-face, ritualised mocking to eyes sharp enough to spot it.

Brandon Lee as "The Crow" receiving a sword thrust

that exits out at the exact location of the bullet wound site which killed him during earlier filming.

That's just coincidence though right?

* Update 8, January 2012 *

Today I was watching Bruce Lee's posthumous final film The Game of Death. I had seen the film many years ago, and quite a number of times, though not with the same investigative eyes or mind. What struck me is one particular scene in the movie where a rather poor imitation Bruce Lee's character named Billy Lo is being stalked and warned of consequences for not capitulating to the threats of an entertainment industry syndicate. When they fail in their pathetic multiple attempts to physically coerce him they decide to finally kill him off. How you may ask? The syndicate sends one of their thugs to the set of a film where Billy Lo is filming a final scene that involves a firing squad type shooting of the character he's portraying. The hitman named Stick infiltrates himself amongst the other actors preparing to shoot at Billy Lo as just he jumps in the air. Just as in the final scene of Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury (aka The Chinese Connection) where the hero named Chen Zen is murdered with a volley of treacherous gunfire. The assassin 'Stick' crouches just as the director walks up and gives final instructions whilst passing out blank cartridges to their weapons. He states Gentlemen, these are blanks. Only aim upward. There's a wad of paper that comes out and can injure someone.", As the director passes out the cartridges, the hitman 'Stick' quickly changes his blank out, inserting a real bullet into his .38 calibre revolver. The director shouts "Action!" and as soon as Billy Lo runs and leaps in the air, the stuntmen fire and 'Stick' shoots billy in the face. Needless to say Billy survives his facial injury and gets his revenge.

What has this to do with Brandon Lee? Well, The Game of Death was released in 1978 and 15 years later, Brandon's shooting (read: murder) on the set shooting a scene for his final film the Crow, mirrors the exact assassination scenario portrayed in The Game of Death. Down to having real ammunition substituted for blanks and murder under the cover of an on-set movie shoot. The only difference is that in Brandon's case, the plot was followed full course to his ritually staged demise. Dismissed as a "tragic accident" or a laughable Chinese family curse, which of course are the prepared cover stories. Coincidence in the course of criminal investigation is a red flag, and it can hardly be accepted at face value during the course of proper crime analysis. In fact in terms of calculated criminal conspiracies, nothing plays better to obfuscate a crime like orchestrated coincidences. Believe enough convenient cover stories, and soon you'll start swallowing horseshit like 19 hijackers standing down NORAD to crash planes into buildings, "terrorist" attacks on Iraqi civilians every time the US mouths their intentions to pull troops, or Alleged Palestinian rockets stamped with conspicuous Hebrew writing" fired into Israel that produce infinitesimal amounts of alleged casualties and next to no damage. You see coincidence and cognitive dissonance are forever entwined with one another. For together they produce an opportune exit door when truth becomes too scary to deal with. The escape artists retreat for those who embrace fairytales for mass consumption as a lifestyle choice.

It is completely within the realm of plausibility that the same engineers behind the premature death of Bruce Lee, were the very self-same interests also behind the staged murder of his son, for it seems they both represented a similar threat. What better twisted pathology than to commit it in such a mocking manner that it leaves such an obvious a point of evidence. The revelation of the method, set in quite plain view before our very eyes and I'm only sorry I didn't pick up on it until just now.

33 comments:

I think the point about inspirational personalities getting hit proves accurate. The personality is then 'lifted' and molded on a similar character as Lennon to Bono.As the man sang so pointedly ' This is not a Rebel song - Sunday Bloody Sunday'. No Mr. Vox , its an establishment song.

Not all get hit though, just their ideas lifted and then ignored.

I happened to be thinking that all those who died young while being famous are just killed for the sales-after-death income. A simple method , make them famous and then take them out. Make sure a contract has been written that diverts the money to the mediamafia, pay off the relatives , give some like Yoko [ a plant] the fame made by the real talent , insert her [ in this case vapid excrement] talents and feed off the memory.

I'd imagine this sort of behaviour could be traced to the early days of Hollywood.

Too true, some do not get hit. Some get co-opted, bought off, blackmailed or just plain marginalised. Because of the level of control at all levels, we'll never see another Jimi Hendricks, or any other extra-ordinary individuals to captivate and motivate. They've sealed that off, as they don't need any personalities agitating the slaves to ideas like freedom and individuality.

I too wondered about Yoko myself, as if you ever watched the documentary film "The U.S. vs John Lennon" you'll see that she was equally contributory in support of John's causes, and activism. Yet only John was targeted for assassination, which I found suspicious.

You also win the sharp eye prize for sussing the Process Church out of that visual reference. In terms of film making shot composition and context, that stark little message is set there purposely to be seen. Like a wolf pissing to mark its spot of predation.

Still investigating the symbols, but don't recognize them from anywhere specific.

Sigil making may be worth researching , try Austin Osman Spare.

The one inside the doorway has a voodoun feel to it, but generally they're symbols are more elaborate.

I think I'll have to wait until I bump into them, but shall keep an 'eye out'.

Maybe dowload the film and get a better idea in context.

There are people who practice mobile magic setting up temporary altars , urban voodoo, that mix western and african/caribbean, santeria etc.

I had a friend many years ago who would try to clean sites where magic had been performed, convinced as he was that these left 'shit' in the metaphysical.

I wonder if the symbols are from different sources.

I get the idea from this post that perhaps the whole set and film were one big ritual with its own sacrifice - which seems to explain Hollywood and its sickness-pervading filth and dissonance creating programming.

Hi HHQ.A very long time ago i went out with a tattooist.(when i was young, naive and had no idea)He was sick, satanic and tried once to kill me with a knife.He practices Occult voodoo, modeled on Palo congo voodoo and santeria, a satanic version of haitian Voodoo.Mind you this is in Australia.As soon as i saw the PROCESS.. i got sick in my gut. He had that tattooed on his hands and arm.I never got to see the crow even though i was 25 when it came out. I left him and that gross tattoo enviroment and it nearly cost me my life and my sanity, but it opened the door to the truth about these sickos and i'm glad to have this knowlwdge now. He had me do his "research" for him over the net, little did the idiot realise i learnt about it all too and see and know how sick, depraved and pathetic these beings are..It's abit like that white Zombie song "more Human than Human" that's what they think they are, but they are Pawns to be ridiculed. We are onto them.we can defend ourselves as Good is more powerfull than evil could ever be.. we are at war and being aware of these monsters is part of defeating them. Keep up the good fight.A13

Anonymous A13, apologies for not addressing your post earlier. Thanks for sharing your harrowing story and I'm glad that you were able to traverse your way out of it. The inadvertent knowledge that "research" produced is what probably alerted you to the realities of your situation and saved you. Often those in those circumstances don't know how deep they're in it until much too late.

Rob Zombie a.k.a. Robert Bartleh Cummings, leader of the band Rob Zombie, is a self-professed satanist, so producing a song entitled 'More Human Than Human' is quite expected. Plus, if you've had the displeasure of viewing any of the films he's directed, you'll quickly notice that it's a subject he fancies greatly and propagates ad-nauseaum.

Another trade phrase very similar to 'More Human Than Human' that's utilised in those circles is… 'Beyond Good and Evil'. It was even used as the title of an album by the once popular U.K. band called quite aptly… The Cult. In later years, the band used satanic symbolism and references in their songs, including an overt nod to The Process in the title song from that album entitled "War (The Process)".

Hi HHQ,i am very famililar with the cult and have the CD of beyond good and evil, i was thinking more that war, the process was pimping for a holy war between chistians and muslims and funny that the CD came out in 2001, about the same time as 911. What did the "Cult" know hey? As i travelled around Western Europe late that year and early 2002 i was listening to it and another song that emerged as particulary creepy was Ashes and ghosts, especially as i was in areas that had seen alot of blood spilled in WW2. I stopped listening to it not long after i realized it had subliminal messages and brought on feelings of despondancy. I've learnt alot since (i guess we all have hey?) . Music has the ability to affect our psyches and spirits in ways we don't see or are aware of conciously. On a fun note.. remember the Brown Note??lolThank you to suraci and youself fo this fine blog and your wonderfull individual blogs as well, i have to sign in as annon as i am no blogger(slight dyslexia) and Kudos to you both.Cheers A13

Just heard back from Suraci, he's doing well and taking some much needed time to regenerate himself. Slogging about in these trenches can be most draining which is why we all need to support one another.

i see you did an entertainer and i wonder if you would do a singer named Aaliyah, who died in a plane crash 10 years ago. She died in here final movie where in the movie(queen of the damned) she turns into complete ash,which is kind of like of death, she also had premonitions about her death a month before which was documented in a german magazine. the way the crash happened from a corrupt pilot,negligent airport,overloading of the plane, the constant change of the charter who was going to fly them out and her telling her relatives hours before how much she hated the plane..makes me wonder how everything just set in motion that crash

Thanks Anonymous, I remember when her death occurred and thought it was very suspicious at the time. I'll do some preliminary investigation, bring it up to the rest of the team and see what they think on it. I'm very curious as to what the possible motive could be to kill her and stage her death in such a manner.

Greetings Darcimarie, 2 good questions you've posited which I will attempt to bring some hypothetical clarity. The research that lead to the information I distilled into this post was both thorough and convincing. Brandon's death was not just an unfortunate incident, nor some invented curse to lead people up a garden path. The motive to kill Brandon can only be guessed at, since the parties that engineered the crime are still at large. There's compelling evidence that points to Brandon's murder being of a ritual nature with satanic overtones. In satanic practises, sacrificial killings of animals and children are of special significance, however even more diabolical power can be derived from murdering a personality of extraordinary and unmatched talent.

It is my belief that it had more to do with Brandon being the sole male heir to Bruce Lee's legacy and the possibility of him being a powerful influential force. If you examine the murders of John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley you'll find that they were silenced for their influence and the causes they backed monetarily. You can be a threat just for your level of positive influence. So you have in place two possible motives in place — one ritual and one socio-political.

As for Brandon's fame? He was a fast-rising star with an intelligence and philosophy like his father. Just to give you an idea of his still growing popularity, his story here at Suspicious Deaths is most surprisingly the most visited.

To answer your second question, regarding the official autopsy. I don't place a lot of blind faith in high profile autopsy reports, which can be skewed, altered or manipulated to suit the requirements of an engineered back-story. One only need look at the many suspicious deaths or assassinations and their curious, sloppy or audacious details or lack there of. JFK's autopsy is but one glaring example of this.

Ultimately bear in mind, that the purpose of Suspicious Deaths is to present information and evidence in cases where the deaths of individuals is deemed credibly suspect and politically connected. We do not have the inside access or official investigative resources necessary to launch a proper inquiry and detailed investigation. We do the best we can to recover and unearth available information and present a case that initiates a public discourse. In the hopes that readers assist in the investigation and also offer additional information that further this cooperative effort.

I'm a big fan of them too especially Bruce. I had to laugh at posts above with regards to the cult and rob zombie. I listen to a lot of Goth bands but it doesn't make me satanic lol My fave band of all time is Fields of the nephilim (Nephilim derived from the bible) I hate it that people see us as evil people. You must be very tunnel visioned to think that way. Basically what i'm saying is just because people dress and look different doesn't make them bad people.I spend most my time helping others so to say i'm a bad person is crap! Most the people in this world that do harm in the world have short hair and dress the same! We have a show here in the U.K. called crimewatch and in the past 25 years or more of watching it i have never seen a Goth person on it! They are all casually dressed people mostly foreigners i must state. I doubt we will ever find out what happened to Bruce or Brandon just as John lennon Marilyn Monroe Thelma Todd etc

Hello, HHQ. Thank you for your post. extremely well written. just coming across this post after watching the Crow for the first time in years last night. Watching all of the blatant satanic symbolism and the all seeing eye throughout the movie went way beyond entertainment into alarming territory from the first scene and I could totally see how Brandon Lee was being set up as a ritualistic sacrafice. I NEVER bought that his shooting on set was accidental and have thought about how many of the young influential personalities have been extinguished such as Bob Marley, Malcom X, Martin Luther King, The Kennedys, John Lennon, Bruce Lee, Heath Ledger (who's movie The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus was very much a set up for a ritualistic sacrifice as well)... and the list goes on and on and on...my question is, do they not see this coming to them? I've seen interviews with Brandon Lee and not only was he stunningly beautiful but charasmatic and engaging, super bright, charming, and most importantly he seemed extremely AWARE. I don't know how he could have walked into this movie blindly knowing all the darkness and satanic ritualism that was in this without thinking his life could be in danger. it's so tragic. he certainly would have gone on to become an absolute iconic figure.

Apologies Anonymous, as I just found your contribution stuck in the spam folder which I just now released. I'll have to keep examining the spam folder more frequently to avoid this occurring again. Thanks sincerely for your comments. In answer to your query on how Brandon could have walked blindly into this satanic setup, I'd have to reasonably speculate.

People may be intelligent, but not able to read the landscape if they're not aware of what to look out for. On a film set there are so many distractions and hectic, exhausting shooting schedules that he may have been kept too busy to notice, things that you or I may readily pick up on. Plus, movies are always shot out of sequence and compartmentalised, and celebrities are often attended to in every way and guided by handlers who keep them focused on what they feel is important.

Many of us work jobs acting as worker-bee facilitators for major criminal enterprises, and how many of us are really, actively conscious of how they actually operate and hurt the masses? We just trudge in, do our time and leave without much thought behind any of what we hear or see daily that may be weird at the workplace.

Great imagination and impressive work. I do not find unquestionable evidences from your post to accept the painful decision that THEY were KILLED. I do accept facts and proofs but yours are incomplete and suggesstions at most. I also do have a gut feeling that these men were murdered but probably for more reasonable and understandable reasons. It is sad we lost them.

Brandon Lee was killed because of a tragic accident that's all. It was a terrible accident and with a huge amount of neglect along bad safety standards with regard to the movie set.

As for Bruce Lee, well he died because he was taking hash by ingesting it. He was told by his doctors after the first brain seizure to stop taking it, he didn't listen and died that's all.

Jimi Hendrix was not murdered either. He died of complete careless and he was with the wrong person at the time of his death. Many times before he nearly died by nearly choking to death and someone always woke him and got him in time. This time he was unluckily and died, just carelessness folks.

John Lennon was murdered by a nutcase who wanted fame. A sad little nobody who wanted a little bit of fame by killing someone famous and he got what he wanted. A movie was made about him, how sad is that?

Everything can be explained with simple reason and if we want to believe that Bigfoot exists along with the Loch Ness monster so be it. It is what it is plain and simple folks, no mysteries!!

I'm also a fan of Brandon . I found this very interesting and plausible theory . The Hollywood industry had reason to kill Brandon . He refused to make the role his father Bruce in the biopic Dragon , which was released months after his death . Having the son of the legend Bruce Lee doing his role would bring a lot of money for the industry . As Brandon refused , the way Hollywood has found to capitalize on the image of Bruce Lee was killing his son . Another interesting point I also remember seeing somewhere is that Brandon asked his agent to make a formal complaint against the company responsible for the filming of The Crow due to bad conditions filming . The company obviously treated with contempt the claim , but this should have them angry enough . Anyway, I believe that Brandon was eliminated by the industry for two reasons : his strong personality , he was not a puppet , and because the industry wanted to capitalize on the image of his father.

Thanks for the post and this site. Very interesting. I try to stick to logic and logical reasoning, yet, at times (or cases) like this, it really seems more than just co-incendence, doesn' it? Lots of theories and suspicions. I know just few things about Brandon but I always was a huge Bruce fan and his dead seemed weird but in the end we learn at the least, to keep away drugs from ourselves and to avoid any kind of magic/satanic/black things because they sure have a certain power. Lets work the brain and look at the Branon-Situation:

With pure logic, based on a naturalistic viewpoint, there is no God, Satan, no metaphysical. That leaves us with 2 options: Either Brandon was shot accidental (as suggeted from mainstram source) or it was intentional. I think the last scene you also pictured above is not just incidental (a sword at the exact same place) however, I don't thing that it has anything to support either of the 2 options.If we look further using our logic, an intentional death may be motivated by different people/groups. But what makes me critically think at it, is that he was shot in the stomach: In most cases, if operated a.s.ap. vicitms survive. In his case, the artery (Aorta abdominalis suprarenalis) was severed which leads to very fast bleeding to dead; he most likeley went into unconciousness very quickly due too massive blood loss. However, how must the last few seconds of his live have been, gives me the creeps. Ask people with massive blood loss who survived....you literally feel your energy/power flow out of your body, getting tired/sleepy but simultanously you know its your life which flows away and it makes you feel 'lighter'. Anyhow, back to topic. So, HOW on earth would any people/individual/group (hollywood, chinese triade, satanist or whomever might have interest in seeing Brandon dead) plan such a set-up. What I mean is: If you shoot someone, as good trained fellow, you may direct the gun right to kill, but the co-actor Michael who did the actual shooting, would not be able to hit the artery by intention, even if he would have been involved in any way. So my point is.....its unlikely that it was intended to kill Brandon and make it look like an accident, because the shooting would have given him higher chances survive because a single stomach shot is garantuee of death.

On the other hand....if we believe that there is more to life than just the phyiscal world we see. and I hold this worldview, than we might see further. It brings me to a point that I have to recognize the "coincedences" and admit, that there are too many of them. Some higher power clearly was involved. So in this sense, my own conclusion is that the shooting was most likely a real accident but that all things which happened, and are happening, underlie some higher forces and are not at all pure random things. :)

I would like to have good/reliable sources about the asian guy who was with the gun group though, since good information on this matter might give evidence for an intentional "accident'. Poor Linda had gone through a lot, but always was one strong woman, and in this sense a perfect match with Bruce. ;)

Apologies for the late reply, as I don't circle back here as often as I'd like. In any event, there's also another possibility and that is the fact that Michael Massee was used as an unknowing patsy. Meaning that someone else fired the killing round using Massee's firing as a cover. This is but a very thin theory however, as it would take an expert assassin to pull something like that off. Without more conclusive evidence, there's only supposition to place fill gaps until information comes along to prove or disprove a contention.